Sierra Club took $26 million from natural gas lobby to battle coal industry … the Sierra Club, America’s oldest and most august environmental organization, accepted millions of dollars in donations from one of the nation’s biggest natural gas-drilling companies for a program lambasting coal-fired power plants as environmental evildoers. Read More »

Maybe the name Bart Stupak will ring some bells. The Hill, March 23, 2010: Obama will sign Stupak executive order… President Barack Obama Wednesday will put his signature on an executive order regarding the new healthcare law that was part of a deal designed to encourage anti-abortion rights Democrats to back the bill. …. Read More »

My friend Avigdor dipped his toe into the controversy at Huffington Post over “Barack Obama’s Contraception Ruling” – mostly quoting Wikipedia: The Supreme Court’s decision in Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) establishe­d the “Lemon test”, which details the requiremen­ts for legislatio­n concerning religion. Read More »

Rick Richman has an important piece up at PJ Media: Lessons from North Korea for Israel and Iran On January 20, President Obama told a New York reception that “we’re not going to tolerate a nuclear weapon in the hands of this Iranian regime. Read More »

I was wondering why anonymous “U.S. officials” would want to leak to state-run media (in this case, NBC) that Israel is working with a terrorist group (that is, Iranian dissidents) in carrying out assassinations of Iran’s nuclear scientists… when what to my wondering eyes should appear, but an invitation to “join the conversation. Read More »

This is not working out. I’ve only been blogging in between – and to avoid – doing my taxes, so neither job is getting my full attention and both are suffering, while my interior whining is only getting louder and more incessant. Read More »

from Carl in Jerusalem. …. There are only two countries where illegal immigrants are not either sent back, jailed or shot. Guess who. Read More »

Aussie Dave at Israellycool: Guess Who’s Running For Congress? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has sent a letter declaring his intent to run for Congress in New Jersey’s newly formed 9th District. Boteach sent the letter of intent to the offices of the Bergen County Republican Organization by the Jan. Read More »

There’s a Drudge-linked article at the Hollywood Reporter about ‘conservative’ movies making more money than ‘liberal’ movies. While this is not an issue of great concern to me, I did enjoy two of the comments that followed. Joe: “Why should we pay people to make fun of us and trash what we hold dear? Screw that noise. Read More »

WASHINGTON – Federal employees can take unscheduled leave or telework from home on Wednesday in anticipation of snow expected to fall across the D.C. metro area. The Office of Personnel Management made the announcement by email just after 10 a.m. Read More »

It is written in simple English, not legalistic gobbledygook. There is no reason why all Americans cannot read it and see how it applies to events going on around them.” — Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s Constitution Day Address, September 16, 2005. Read More »

I realize that it’s disrespectful to refer to the First Lady as “Moochelle,” but I think it pales in comparison with the flagrant disrespect for our country that consistently emanates from this White House. Read More »

Who says House Republicans are not standing strong? Real Clear Politics: “Renee Ellmers (R-NC), took on Henry Waxman (D-CA) in spectacular fashion [yesterday] in a joint House-Senate hearing on the payroll tax cut extension.” Todah to Stef; I never would have come across this. Read More »

I really should get back on twitter… I’m missing all the great one-liners. Now to the big news… Santorum Sweeps All Three: MO, MN and Colorado!! In Missouri, he won with 55.2% (Romney 25.3%, Newt not on the ballot) In Minnesota, 44.8% (Ron Paul made a strong showing at 27.2%, Romney 16.9, Newt dead last at 10.7). Read More »

January 2011: PLO Chief of Mission Maen Areikat hoisted PLO flag in Washington DC for first time ever. …. He said US permission to officially raise the flag at this time “means that the administration is serious, that they want to see the struggle of the Palestinian people concluded and the establishment of a Palestinian state. Read More »

Weirdest news video ever… from the Agence France Presse (where “Accuracy is the absolute priority” — in English, French, Spanish, German, Portugese, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese). YNet News: WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met Tuesday, for the first time in 18 months. Read More »

Also from HOT AIR: Last we heard from the Fisker Karma, the electric vehicle in which US taxpayers sunk $193 million so far, the loans were paying off by creating jobs … in Finland. As it turns out, even that report was too optimistic. Read More »

HOT AIR: The Washington Post and ABC News has a new national poll out today. It purports to show that Barack Obama has a 50% approval rating and that he would beat Mitt Romney in a head-to-head matchup. And heck, that might even be true, except for a couple of problems. Read More »

The website. The full story: All Whites are racist Thanks to Don Surber. The billboard. Read More »

Dan Friedman (NYC) writes: In this short video, Obama complains to Matt Lauer that the Constitution has gotten in his way and he hasn’t been able to “force” Congress to pass all the legislation he wanted. Read More »